Book description
Continuing the proven and successful concept of the well-received
textbook "Asymmetric Synthesis - The Essentials", this is a
brief and timely update on the latest developments in asymmetric
synthesis and selected applications in natural product synthesis,
chemical industry and materials science. As such, it covers a broad
range of topics in all important areas, including metal catalysis,
organocatalysis, physical organic chemistry, and analytical chemistry.
Each contribution is similarly structured, while the short biographies
of the experts are a useful tool for students selecting their PhD or
postdoc topics and environments.
A must for anyone in academia and research working in this important
field. Mathias Christmann was born in Peine, Germany, in 1972 and
studied chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig
(1993-1998), followed by graduate studies at the Leibniz University
Hannover (1998-2001). After a postdoctoral stint at the University of
Minnesota, USA, he joined the RWTH Aachen University as a Liebig-Fellow
of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie to work towards his habilitation
with Dieter Enders. In 2008, he was appointed Associate Professor at the
Dortmund University of Technology. His research interests include
natural product synthesis and organocatalysis.
Stefan Brase was born in Kiel, Germany, in 1967 and studied chemistry in
Gottingen, Bangor (UK) and Marseille (France). In 1995, he obtained his
doctorate after working with Armin de Meijere at the University of
Gottingen. After post-doctoral appointments at Uppsala University,
Sweden (J.-E. Backvall) and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla,
USA (K. C. Nicolaou), he began his independent research career at the
RWTH Aachen associated with Dieter Enders in1997 and finished his
habilitation in 2001. He became Professor at the University of Bonn that
same year. Since 2003, he is Full Professor at the University of
Karlsruhe - in October 2009 renamed to the Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology. Stefan Brase has published more than 250 publications and is
recipient of the ORCHEM award in 2000. His research interests include
methods in drug-discovery (including drug delivery), combinatorial
chemistry towards the synthesis of biologically active compounds, total
synthesis of natural products and nanotechnology.
